Boris Bakhmeteff | |
|---|---|
Борис Бахметев | |
 Bakhmeteff in 1918 | |
| Russian Ambassador to the United States | |
| In office 1917 | |
| Preceded by | George Bakhmeteff |
| Succeeded by | Maxim Litvinov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 14, 1880 Tbilisi, Russian Empire |
| Died | July 21, 1951 (aged 71) Brookfield, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Political party | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks) |
| Spouse(s) |
Helen Bakhmeteff
(m. 1905; died 1921)Marie C. Cole (m. 1938) |
Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff (Russian: Борис Александрович Бахметев) (also spelled Bakhmetieff or Bakhmetev) (May 14, 1880 – July 21, 1951) was an engineer, businessman, professor of civil engineering at Columbia University and the only ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States.[1] He was unrelated to his predecessor as ambassador, George Bakhmeteff.[2]
- ^ Oleg Budnitskii (September 2003). "Boris Bakhmeteff's Intellectual Legacy in American and Russian Collections". Slavic & East European Information Resources. 4 (4): 5–12. doi:10.1300/J167v04n04_02. S2CID 143754464.Jared S. Ingersoll; Tanya Chebotarev (2003). Russian and East European books and manuscripts in the United States: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture. New York: Haworth Information Press. pp. 5–12. ISBN 978-0-7890-2405-3.
- ^ "Plans Of Bakhmetieff. New Russian Envoy's Stay Is Only To Be Temporary" (PDF). The New York Times. June 8, 1917.